Dates
Join us for the opening evening on Friday 21st June 17:30 onwards, all welcome!
About this event
I nearly called this show ‘“Driven to Abstraction”, My Family and Other Reasons Why I Paint’. I feel compelled to create and make work, as an escape, a retreat, a therapy, a release. I can’t not create. However, I am first and foremost a mum of three boys (twins 8 and a 9-year-old), all three are homeschooled. Life for me is full, to say the least; my role and responsibilities can sometimes feel overwhelming to the point of suffocation. In the past, my sense of self has been lost in the melee of everyday life.
I have recently had a shift in my perception of why I make art; I used to think myself as an artist in spite of my role as a mother, that (with frustration) motherhood was preventing me from fully fulfilling my role as an artist. I have come to realise that is because of motherhood that I must also be an artist, to create balance in my life, to fulfil my whole self and to express my life experiences.
In addition, my paintings are a direct response to, rather than in-spite of, my role as a mother. My practice is respite from the chaos, but more than being a cathartic exercise, the paintings themselves are a direct expression of the all-encompassing demands upon me and the constant fluctuation between chaos and calm that is my life.
Accessibility
Facilities
Art
Thu 29th May, 2025 — Wed 18th Jun, 2025
Whitewater Contemporary, Polzeath, Padstow
£0 — £0
Community
Wed 18th Jun, 2025
St Thomas Church Hall, Launceston
Art, Community, Talks, Workshops
Fri 20th Jun, 2025
Leach Pottery, St Ives
£0 — £0
Art, Community, Workshops
Fri 20th Jun, 2025
The Poly, Falmouth
£120 — £120
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